The Speed of Poetry The Speed of Poetry
When I visit the Poetry Publication Showcase, an annual display of the year's new poetry books at Poets House in Manhattan, I feel as if I've been granted a precious audience wit...
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jan Clausen
A City That Worked A City That Worked
The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprise...
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright MP3: It’s Only Rock and Roll and The Kids Are Alright
Once upon a time there was a struggling young California band. Its music was too loud and its image too unpolished for MTV.
Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Siva Vaidhyanathan
Pulling Back the Veil on Condor Pulling Back the Veil on Condor
For three years, from 1975 through 1977, the countries in what is known as the Southern Cone of South America underwent a human rights crime wave unprecedented before or since in...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / John Dinges
Media and Trade: A Love Story Media and Trade: A Love Story
On the final day of the Seattle demonstrations this past December, Peter Jennings of ABC's World News Tonight introduced the story with a sly aside: "The thousands of demonstrato...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / William Greider
Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters? Where’s Hoffa Driving the Teamsters?
There was a time when the very word "Teamsters" evoked some pretty dark images: a bloated and notoriously corrupt union president, carried into the Teamsters convention on a gild...
Jul 13, 2000 / Feature / Marc Cooper
If Not Now… If Not Now…
There are a number of persuasive reasons to cast a vote for Ralph Nader in the fall, and a number of unpersuasive reasons, too.
Jul 13, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Death Penalty Politics Death Penalty Politics
The seismic shift in the politics of the death penalty is staggering.
Jul 13, 2000 / Mike Farrell
Putin’s Choice Putin’s Choice
Vladimir Putin has been Russia's President for seven months, but there is no agreement in Moscow as to who he is or what kind of leader he will be.
Jul 13, 2000 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away Bush Under Strain, a Heartbeat Away
So much good news has been generated by the Bush Administration concerning the health of Dick Cheney that perhaps all of us should have four heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, a st...
Jul 3, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer